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We estimate the transition rates of a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to a quantum field with reflecting conditions on a boundary plane (a "mirror"). We find that these are essentially indistinguishable from the usual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 Carlo Rovelli , Matteo Smerlak

In this study, we investigate the signature of the Unruh effect in quantum radiation from an accelerated charged particle interacting with vacuum fluctuations. Because a charged particle in uniformly accelerated motion exhibits thermal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-27 Naritaka Oshita , Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Sen Zhang

It was recently advanced the argument that Unruh effect emerges from the study of quantum field theory in quantum space-time. Quantum space-time is identified with the Hilbert space of a new kind of quantum fields, the accelerated fields,…

General Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Vasileios I. Kiosses

We examine the Unruh-DeWitt particle detector coupled to a scalar field in an arbitrary Hadamard state in four-dimensional curved spacetime. Using smooth switching functions to turn on and off the interaction, we obtain a regulator-free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Jorma Louko , Alejandro Satz

We develop a general formalism for a non-perturbative treatment of harmonic-oscillator particle detectors in relativistic quantum field theory using continuous-variables techniques. By means of this we forgo perturbation theory altogether…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-02 Eric G. Brown , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Nicolas C. Menicucci , Robert B. Mann

We review recent results regarding entanglement in quantum fields in cosmological spacetimes and related phenomena in flat spacetime such as the Unruh effect. We being with a summary of important results about field entanglement and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-29 Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Nicolas C. Menicucci

How long does a uniformly accelerated observer need to interact with a quantum field in order to record thermality in the Unruh temperature? We address this question for a pointlike Unruh-DeWitt detector, coupled linearly to a real…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-20 Christopher J. Fewster , Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Jorma Louko

We use the Unruh effect to investigate how the teleportation of quantum states is affected when one of the entangled qubits used in the process is under the influence of some external force. In order to reach a comprehensive understanding,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-29 Andre G. S. Landulfo , George E. A. Matsas

In this paper, we investigate the quantum coherence extraction {between} two accelerating Unruh-DeWitt detectors, coupling to a scalar field in $(3+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. We find that quantum coherence as a nonclassical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 Jiafan Wang , Jingjun Zhang , Jun Feng

We review a recently introduced unified approach to the analytical quantification of correlations in Gaussian states of bosonic scalar fields by means of Renyi-2 entropy. This allows us to obtain handy formulae for classical, quantum, total…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-19 Gerardo Adesso , Sammy Ragy , Davide Girolami

We study how the entanglement of an entangled pair of particles is affected when one or both of the pair is uniformly accelerated, while the detector remains in an inertial frame. We find that the entanglement is unchanged if all degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-11 W. L. Ku , M. -C. Chu

We consider two initially entangled Unruh-DeWitt particle detectors and examine how the initial entanglement changes after interacting with a quantum scalar field. As initially nonentangled detectors extract entanglement from the field,…

In a seminal paper, Unruh and Wald found that the detection of a right Rindler particle by a linearly uniformly accelerated detector coupled to a Klein-Gordon field in the Minkowski vacuum leads to the creation of a Minkowski particle from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 Angel Garcia-Chung , Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Daniel Sudarsky

We study the effect of large acceleration of an uniformly accelerated frame on the validity of weak equivalence principle. Specifically we demonstrate how the behaviour of free quantum particle, as observed by an observer with large uniform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 Sukanta Bhattacharyya , Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Anirban Saha

Inspired by Einstein's Strong Principle of Equivalence we consider the effects of quantum mechanics to the gravity-like phenomena experienced by an observer in a uniformly accelerating motion in flat spacetime. Among other things, our model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-17 Jarmo Mäkelä

The evolution of a quantum system subjected to infinitely many measurements in a finite time interval is confined in a proper subspace of the Hilbert space. This phenomenon is called "quantum Zeno effect": a particle under intensive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-01 Paolo Facchi , Sandro Graffi , Marilena Ligabò

It has been thirty years since the discovery of the Unruh effect. It has played a crucial role in our understanding that the particle content of a field theory is observer dependent. This effect is important in its own right and as a way to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Luis C. B. Crispino , Atsushi Higuchi , George E. A. Matsas

We calculate the radiation resulting from the Unruh effect for strongly accelerated electrons and show that the photons are created in pairs whose polarizations are maximally entangled. Apart from the photon statistics, this quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ralf Schützhold , Gernot Schaller , Dietrich Habs

We show that a detector acquires a Berry phase due to its motion in spacetime. The phase is different in the inertial and accelerated case as a direct consequence of the Unruh effect. We exploit this fact to design a novel method to measure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-20 E. Martin-Martinez , I. Fuentes , R. B. Mann

In this work we consider the ontological status of the Unruh effect. Is it just a formal mathematical result? Or the temperature detected by an accelerating observer can lead to real physical effects such as phase transition. In order to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-17 Antonio Dobado